Silver Galapagos Review

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Review for South America Cruise on Silver Galapagos
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Mocamps
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Oct 2014

This was our first expedition cruise and our first cruise with Silverseas. We have previously cruised with Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Star Clippers. Our favourite (before this one) was the one with Star Clippers. Now it's a close run thing!!

We have also enjoyed catamaran cruises on 5 -cabin catamarans with Tradewinds, so we do have a tendency to prefer the smaller ship experience.

This cruise exceeded my expectations in most aspects.

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Cabin Veranda suite

The cabin (514) was a veranda suite. Silversea call all their cabins 'suites' but in truth, they are much the same size as most other cruise ships we have been on. The exception was the Star Clipper where the cabin was definitely smaller. The Silver Galapagos cabin was possibly a bit wider at the point where the sofa was, and we both agreed that the cabin was the nicest that we had had, but I think it's a bit cheeky calling it a 'suite'. Our first choice would have been one of the terraced suites (505 and 506) but these were both taken. With hindsight we were pleased about that. The terrace at the front of these is accessible to everyone and we went down and sat on it a couple of times when our balcony was shaded and a bit cool. I think that it was mainly the people in 505 and 506 that used the terrace and it WAS very nicely furnished, but I wouldn't have liked the idea that people could sit right outside my cabin, and in fact, it did seem to always be a bit too windy on that spot. We also considered the deluxe veranda suites as these weren't selling at a huge premium when we booked. I think they did have very slightly bigger balconies but we had the advantage of being on a higher deck with easy access to the front terrace and the grill bar, so we actually decided that we were very happy with our decision to stick with the standard veranda suite. If I was booking again and had the choice of ANY cabin, I'd opt for any of the veranda suites on the same side as we were. I liked our side of the ship because we often seemed to be looking at the sunsets but I don't know if the ship always ends up in the same spots. Maybe we were just lucky!! I LOVED having a balcony and we actually used it more than I thought we would on this trip - especially in the gap between excursions (usually between about 12 and 3.30 when the ship was moving) and then again when we came back from the 2nd excursion and just before the evening briefing and dinner.

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